Romanticism and the Vocation of Childhood - Hardcover

..."a brilliant book-startling and well-argued...more readable and interesting than many scholarly texts."--Josephine A. McQuail, European Romantic Review
...a book Romanticists...cannot dismiss...written with refreshing clarity... "Choice"
.,."a brilliant book-startling and well-argued...more readable and interesting than many scholarly texts."--Josephine A. McQuail, European Romantic Review
...a book Romanticists...cannot dismiss...written with refreshing clarity... "Choice"
."..a brilliant book-startling and well-argued...more readable and interesting than many scholarly texts."--Josephine A. McQuail, European Romantic Review

...a book Romanticists...cannot dismiss...written with refreshing clarity... "Choice"

There are two branches to Plotz' (English, George Washington U.) investigation of the fixation on childhood by a group of Romantic writers. One figure is a child who is fixed and reified as The Child, and the other is an adult writer who is self-defined and given meaningful work and a meaningful life by a commitment to childhood. Like others before her, she is troubled by what she finds. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)